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Democracy and Commerce at The US Open
Democracy and Commerce at The US Open essayist: by David Foster Wallace Right now in the National Tennis Center s special Stadium—a towering sextagon whose N S E and W sides have exterior banners saying WELCOME TO THE 1995 U.S. OPEN—A USTA Event —right now a whole inland sea of sunglasses and hats in the…
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At one and the same time I become in the sensation and something happens through the sensation, one through the other, one in the other. And at the limit, it is the same body that, being both subject and object, gives and receives the sensation. As a spectator, I experience the sensation only be entering…
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http://video.ted.com/assets/player/swf/EmbedPlayer.swf rewindlove: TED / Talks Denis Dutton: A Darwinian theory of beauty TED collaborates with animator Andrew Park to illustrate Denis Dutton’s provocative theory on beauty — that art, music and other beautiful things, far from being simply “in the eye of the beholder,” are a core part of human nature with deep evolutionary origins.…
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In 1969 Jasia Reichardt curated an exhibition at the Institute of Contemporary Art in London called Play Orbit. Although it has not achieved the landmark status of Reichardt’s Cybernetic Serendipity, which was presented in London a year earlier, it caught the intellectual and artistic mood of a newly emergent constituency of (largely British) artists who…